Комплект заданий для учащихся 7-8 классов (стр. 7 )

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Speaker 1:

It used to be funny having a twin sister at school. People would mix us up, which was a laugh. Sometimes we wouldn’t bother to correct them, but we never actually misled anyone intentionally. But we never thought the same way about things and we used to argue at least once a day. We even had fights, too. Sharon’s bossier than me, but I’mphysically stronger, so I’d normally win. We were both fiercely independent, but that didn’t stop people either buying us identical birthday presents, which was dull, or one to share between us, which was a recipe for disaster! I didn’t mind, but it used to infuriate her.

Speaker 2:

I usedto enjoy sharing a bedroom with Katie because it was our own private space where we could go and be alone. We did argue now and again, and we had different ideas about music and clothes, but I’ddefinitely say we were closer than normal sisters would be. There was a real bond between us – even though she didn’t always keep my secrets when I asked her to, so I could never trust her a hundred per cent. Even now, people tend to ask us to do things together, like being flower girls at a wedding recently. I always feel part of something when Katie’s there, which is nice.

Speaker 3:

According to my mum, I was surprised when she told me that Emily and Iwere identical twins. I must have been about six at the time, andI hadn’t really thought about it before, but I was happy enough. As kids, Emily and I were very much in tune with each other. It made me feel special. We’d have the same ideas about most things – clothes, music, boys – and although we always tried to be individuals, it never really worked because we were a team. Even now, Emily is the first person I’ll turn to if I’m feeling down because Iknow I can rely on her.

Speaker 4:

I always found it hard being a twin because it meant I had to share everything  including a bedroom! I’m the oldest by ten minutes, but people just lumped us
together. We both had our own tastes in clothes and we’d do our hair differently, but people still got us confused, which used to irritate me a lot. Although we spent most of our time together, Amy was never my best mate or anything. I’d talk to my other friends more than I chatted to her because they tended to listen to me more. Even now, compared to me, she’s rather a quiet person, and I suppose that was why.

Speaker 5:

Compared to me, Lucy was really messy as a kid and it drove me mad. It would always be me who had to tidy up our bedroom because she’d left her clothes all over the floor. Luckily, we didn’t have lessons together at school and we tried to keep out of each other’s way. Going shopping together was a real pain because we never wanted the same things. Even now, I’m happiest in T-shirts and casual trousers, whilst she prefers dressing up in skirts and dresses. We’d only really get on when we used to gang up on our older brother, Jamie, who we had frequent disagreements with.

Внимание! После остановки записи дается время (5 минут) для перенесения ответов в листы ответов.

Listening

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Конкурс понимания письменного текста – Reading

Методические рекомендации

В комплект материалов, необходимых для проведения конкурса понимания письменного текста, входят:

Методические рекомендации Описание процедуры проведения конкурса понимания  письменного текста Текст задания Лист ответа (для каждого участника) 5.  Ключи (для членов жюри)

  Задания по чтению состоят из двух частей (всего 20 заданий). На выполнение всех заданий отводится 45 минут, в которые входит и внесение ответов в ответные листы.

  Первое задание – чтение текста познавательного характера “HellandHighWater”.Учащимся необходимо вставить пропущенные параграфы в нужные места текста.

Второе задание – Чтение статьи о рынкефриланс-услуг. Учащимся предлагается соотнести описание, особенности индивидуальных видов работы с их названиями.

  Сложность текстов соответствует уровню B2по шкале Совета Европы.  Тематика текстов представляет интерес для учащихся данного возраста. Тексты подобраны по принципу тематического разнообразия: задания проверяют разные виды чтения, в конкурсе сочетаются задания разного типа.

  Правильность выполнения заданий проверяется по ключам (см. Ключи).

Критерии оценивания:За каждый правильный ответ дается 1 балл.

Максимальное количество баллов, которое можно получить за конкурсReading – 20 (двадцать).

Reading

Time: 45 minutes

Task 1

  Read the text about environmental plete the gaps in the text (1-6) with the sentences (A-G). There is one extra sentence you do not need. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.

Hell and High Water

  The last few years have been the worst period on record for environmental disasters and experts are predicting for worse to come. Tim Radford reports.

Here is how to become a disaster statistic. Move to a shanty town on an unstable hillside near a tropical coast. Crowd together as more and more people arrive. Wait for the world to get a little warmer. More evaporation means more rain, which means the slopes will get progressively more waterlogged. One day, the land will turn to mud and the neighbourhood will begin to go downhill. Literally. And if the slope is steep enough, the landslide will accelerate to more than 200 miles an hour. Peter Walker, of the international federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies has seen it all too often. “First, your house has been washed away. Second, the land that you farmed has disappeared. (1)___________________” In the last decade, floods, droughts, windstorms, earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions and forest fires have become increasingly common. There has been disastrous flooding in Asia, Africa, Central and South America and Oceania. (2)______________________. Storms have been getting worse everywhere too, with a growing number of hurricanes hitting the US, the Caribbean and Central America. Drought has affected large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa for years and many other zones are becoming drier. (3)_____________. A number of nations have already been in armed conflict over water, and drought in the West of the US has resulted in enormous forest fires. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have always been a threat in certain parts of the world. A volcanic eruption virtually wiped out the small Caribbeanisland of Montserrat in 1997 and there have been serious earthquakes in Greece, Turkey and El Salvador. The quake that rocked the small Central American country of El Salvador in 2001 came as the people were still rebuilding their houses and recovering from 1998’s Hurricane Mitch. So why is nature beginning to turn on us? (4)___________________. The population of the world is growing at the rate of 10,000 people an hour, 240,000 every day, nearly 90 million a year, with most of the growth in the developing world. People in agricultural areas, unemployed and sometimes undernourished, move to the cities, and then set up homes on poor soil, crowded into substandard buildings. (5)__________________. This has mainly been caused by the mismanagement of the world’s resources: carbon emissions from rich countries; the activities of the big multinational companies; the deforestation of the world’s forests. As a result, a hotter ocean breeds fiercer cyclones and hurricanes. It surrenders greater quantities of water as evaporation, and more powerful winds dump this water against mountainsides with increasing fury.  Atlantic hurricanes, for instance, are 40% more intense now than they were 30 years ago. All the betting from the disaster professionals is that things will get worse. Professor McGuire, of University College London, is a volcanologist who has been warning for years that the world has not seen the worst nature can do. The worst eruption in human history was probably Mt. Tambora in 1815, in Indonesia. It pumped so much dust into the stratosphere that it effectively cancelled the following summer in Europe and America.

(6)____________________ “It reduced temperatures by maybe 6’C in some places and the whole planet was plunged into winter for years. And there are about two of these events every 100,000 years….”